Nobel Peace Prize Winner 2013: What Is the OPCW?

10/11/2013 6:36AM

The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, was launched in 1997 when the Chemical Weapons Convention, an arms-control treaty, took effect. Naftali Bendavid explains what the organization is and why it won. Photo: AP

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I ... the ... now we know it ... all can I say she is that the depiction of Ciena collections ... of one minute the peace prize ... the tiny and take the kinds of deception like a mealtime station ... might they won the award ... the surprise ... deal of and what the day ... what's the big of a surprise they've got a little bit of the spotlight recently because they think you've got to the operations in Syria over age eliminating serious chemical stockpile ... observation that he the fact is they've been doing work for sixteen years has been trying to help companies ... profound ascertain their stockpiles and then go ahead and eliminate ... I'm the odd that the people getting the word ... emphasize that this wasn't just because they're working today but is actually cost them up into the market ... the end of them on about what can he said in a connection ... well you know they talked about how some of the previous two wars have been deemed making the point of the world needs to get rid of nuclear weapons and this time they thought they were taking aim at Cameron weapons and show that that something that's important to ... its ability to highlight the fact that the world really has the possibility ... of eliminating an entire class of weapon dangerous weapon a weapon of mass destruction ... but that was something that was really important of course they wanted to make a stories they could ... and seeking the kind like if it helps that I've been paper ... I'd you know to get home we did mean as I say the chairman of the Nobel committee went to great lengths to say that they weren't getting the word for Syria but really we're getting the word three years of work at the beginning the field ... it seems I've been to outside observers that he can't be coincidence and it can be ... relevant or slightly ... to my now TCW Cymbalta by far the highest profile the extent to ... which it ever undertaken ... they're charged with the demonization ... of Syria's chemical stockpile ... and on that quite a bit depends us was contemplating military strikes in only held off ... when his plane was arrived at TCW to eliminate the victim of stock all so ... aam my guess is that the fact that they've been in the news more than they ever happened in history is not completely irrelevant to the fact that this is the year that one of the US ... the funding come from wet will this has been making a difference ... of ... what you know it might be how about a hundred eighty ninth numbers because what happens is that the country to sign the chemical weapons Convention which the principal duty or retrieve them and making chemical weapons ... becomes in effect a member of both the CW ... our and their funding comes from a member state ... of mind is really had to go and still hadn't hit to summon a member countries because it's working Syria ... ease is expensive with a lot of security involve some light delicate work ... so my guess is that getting an award like this to the money that comes with it ... is something that they probably welcome very